The back is brown or olive-green with pearl-coloured flanks and its fins have a yellow cast. Snook are voracious predators, eating fish and shrimps with zeal. You will find snook at La Salinas, particularly in the mangrove-margins but occasionally on the saltwater flats themselves where they cause chaos amongst the small fish. Snook love cover and they usually hang around under mangrove, around dock-jetties or among sunken timber. A fine sport fish, they give a good account of themselves, particularly on light tackle but remember that wire leader and watch their teeth.

In Cuba, Snook do not reach record-breaking proportions and a ten-pound fish is considered a good one. Fish to over twenty pounds have been caught.